Psychotic episodes in young children
Anyone have any experience?

Long time member gone anon for obvious reasons. I have a 7yo son with high functioning autism. I suspect he is starting to have psychotic episodes. He has been having some incredibly violent episodes lately which he appears to have to no memory of later. While he has always had meltdowns etc, these are different and he completely zones out and is unresponsive to everything unless psychically removed from the situation which then seems to trigger something and he "comes back", calms down and carries on like normal. I'm very worried these episodes might be psychotic episodes. What do you think? The paed brushed it all off last time we spoke to him about it. I've booked an appointment with the gp but I don't know what to do.